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RE: 'Unvaccinated child? No doctor for you!' - Medical Authoritarianism Grows
This is the difference between a liberty right and a claim right: if you prefer a negative vs positive human right. A liberty right is that one should be left alone, a claim right is an obligation upon other people. In the USA it's pretty difficult politically to insist on claim rights. The USA does have protected-classes and they have some claim rights, but being unvacinatted is not a protected class (last time I checked).
The USA is a sociopolitical organization established by and for the mercantile and financial class. Beyond mercantile contractual obligations, the sociocultural matrix has little to no concepts regarding community, loyalty, or duty. Even their so-called Christian religion is nothing but mercantile contract between peers, writ large into metaphysical sphere, in which worshippers discuss "rights" due them by their supposed creator, according to some ancient legal contract.
When success is perceived to be dependent solely upon individual merit, individual effort, individual creativity, what do the "self-made" men owe towards their neighbors, community, or society? The vacuum of power left by rebelling against their betters and their rightful sovereign in their colonial insurrection was filled by smugglers, merchants, and rentiers. In this social organization, greatest virtue of government is being ineffective and absent, in order that the smugglers and rentiers could continue running their crimminal enterprise unmolested. Claims right is as foreign a concept as responsibility or vocation.